Rajesh Uppal
February 1, 2020 AI & IT, Cyber & IW
905
In recent years consumer imaging technology (digital cameras, mobile phones, etc.) has become ubiquitous, allowing people the world over to take and share images and video instantaneously. Mirroring this rise in digital imagery is the associated ability for even relatively unskilled users to manipulate and distort the message of the …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 28, 2020 AI & IT, Defense & Military
583
Living in an ever-evolving digital era, where data traffic continues to grow by leaps and bounds, organizations across the globe are currently challenged to store, manage and retrieve this massively growing amount of data. To seamlessly respond and cater to this escalating business need, companies are increasingly turning to hyperscale …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 26, 2020 Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Industry & Market Dynamics
267
The United States and Israel have maintained strong bilateral relations based on a number of factors, including robust domestic U.S. support for Israel and its security; shared strategic goals in the Middle East; a mutual commitment to democratic values; and historical ties dating from U.S. support for the creation of …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 26, 2020 AI & IT, Air Force & Aviation
309
Modern commercial airliners have automated systems that can augment or even replace pilots’ performance, managing engine power, controlling and navigating the aircraft, and in some cases even completing landings. One of the goal of future aviation is fully autonomous flight. A fully autonomous aircraft would not require a pilot; it …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 25, 2020 Nanotech, Technology & Systems Management, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy
288
As computer processors have continued to shrink down to sizes where billions of transistors are on single chip, heat has increasingly become a bigger factor in their performance. If those CPUs did not get as hot in the first place, then much less energy would be needed to keep them …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 25, 2020 Air Force & Aviation, Critical & Emerging Technologies
1,218
Aviation Industry and Academia aredeveloping Innovative concepts and technologies for future commercial Aircrafts. The aircraft industry is expecting a seven-fold increase in air traffic by 2050, and a four-fold increase in greenhouse gas emissions unless fundamental changes are made. Biofuel offers carbon emissions reductions of between 36-85%, with the variability …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 24, 2020 AI & IT, Biotech & Synthetic Biology
1,719
Electronic computers are extremely powerful at performing a high number of operations sequentially at very high speeds. However, they struggle with combinatorial tasks that can be solved faster if many operations are performed in parallel for example in cryptography and mathematical optimisation, which require the computer to test a large …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 23, 2020 AI & IT, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries
317
Many nations are racing to achieve a global innovation advantage in artificial intelligence (AI) because they understand that AI is a foundational technology that can boost competitiveness, increase productivity, protect national security, and help solve societal challenges. Nations wherein firms fail to develop successful AI products or services are …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 23, 2020 AI & IT, Industry & Market Dynamics
495
An ARM processor is one of a family of CPUs based on the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture developed by Advanced RISC Machines (ARM). RISC processors are designed to perform a smaller number of types of computer instructions so that they can operate at a higher speed, performing more …
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Rajesh Uppal
January 22, 2020 Defense & Military, Photonics
1,850
Smartphone camera technology is growing in leaps and bounds in the past couple of years and continues to be a major point to differentiate their products. The commercial development of curved image sensors is one of the biggest advance in camera technology in decades, allowing for simpler, flatter lenses with …
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